It’s not that what the Blues need to do to be successful in this series is a mystery. Players and coaches and pundits alike have been saying it since before the Stanley Cup Final even started: stay off of the penalty kill. Do not give the Boston Bruins the man advantage.
The Blues are trying to walk a line between physicality and penalty killing, and they have apparently chosen penalty killing as their hill to die on. Oskar Sundqvist gets suspended for game three on a borderline hit, throwing the team’s penalty kill akimbo?